Garment-supporter



(No Model.)

G. E. ADAMS. GARMENT 'SUPPORTEB.

No. 496,630. v Patented May 2, 1893 War-2v ey;

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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE E. ADAMS, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT.

GARMENT-SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 496,630, dated. May 2, 1893.

Application filed February 20, 1893. Serial No. 463.088. (No model.)

To all whom it ntay cmwern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. ADAMS, of New Britain, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Slides and Cast-Offs for Garment-Supporters; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The slides now employed on garment supporters, particularly stocking supporters, it is well known, have a tendency to work along the Web, particularly if the latter be an elastic web, and it is one object of my present invention to overcome this defect and provide a slide which may be locked in place, a further object being to provide a slide with a cast-01f device, adapting it for use more especially on ladies and childreris stocking supporters.

To these ends, the invention consists in certain novel details of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts all as will be now described and pointed out particularly in the appended claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of the most approved form of cast-off slide applied to a stocking supporter. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a side elevation showing the action of the loop in opening the cast-ofi device. Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 2 with the tongues open. -Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the slide without the cast-0E feature. Fig. 6 is a similar view of a modification.

Like letters of reference in the several figures denote the same parts.

Referring particularly to Figs. 1 and 2, it will be seen, that the body A of the slide is, as usual, formed, or struck up from sheet metal with the usual laterally elongated openings B, B, for the passage of the web, or rather the adjustable member of the web, which latter is passed up through one opening, over the central cross bar b and down through the other opening. Usually this structure, with some means for attaching the other end of the web, thereto, forms the entire slide, but it is found that as thus constructed, they are apt to slide, or work along the web, particularly if the latter be elastic, and with a view .said locking tongue just passing within the lip D so as to nip or bind the web firmly between the two preventingany movement of the web under strains tending to pull it upward through the slide. Ateach side, the tongue is provided with projections or cars at which rest on the side bars of the slide body and prevent the tongue from passing through the opening, as will be readily understood, and for convenience, I preferably provide the locking tongue with an upwardly projecting thumb piece D, although it will be understood that this may be omitted, as illustrated in Fig. 5, and the web relied on as the means whereby the lever may be released.

In Fig. 5 it will be noted, the slide is simply formed with a lower loop oropening F forthe attachment of the web, but I prefer to form it with a means wherebythe opposite end of the web,or where used for a stocking supporter the supporter end, may be readily detached and left attached to the stocking if desired, to which ends, the body of the slide is elongated and formed into a hook H somewhat narrower than the body of the slide, in order to make the device more compact and of neater appearance. Above the hook portion and pivoted upon a pivot bar G formed in or attached to the body of the slide, is the castoff looking tongue I, the lower end of which is hook shaped at K and adapted to spring around the bottom of the hook H, forming a snap catch, when the two are brought together, thereby inclosing the cast-off loop L within the hook.

In order that a device of this kind shall be a practical success, it is absolutely essential that it shall be thin, and have no projections which can catch in the clothing or cause irritation to the skin of the wearer; hence it will be observed that in the present device, although I have provided a locking lever for the web and a cost-off mechanism, I have not increased the thickness of the device nor formed any projections which are objectionable. In order,n0w, to provide a means for releasing the cast-off locking lever, ears or wings M are formed thereon, projecting in the same plane as the lever itself but extending beyond the inner curve of the hook in position to engage with the sides of the cast-off loop, hence when the latter is turned up to the position indicated in Fig. 3 the cast-off locking lever willbe forced open. To release, therefore, the wearer simply grasps the castoif loop J, draws the lower end forward to throw the locking tongue open, and then lifts the loop off the hook. To facilitate the engagement of the loop with the ears M, said loop L has its sides bent in at Z, and then formed into any approved loop or bar end for the attachment of the web..

The use of the device is obvious, and it is only necessary to call attention to the fact, that where the Web looking tongue is formed without the thumb pieces, it may be released by drawing the Web upward on the front side of the slide, and in locking the same it is pressed down until the cars at each side engage the side bars of the body and prevent further movementin that direction. The lip D and the lower edge of thelocking lever are preferably sharpened somewhat to engage the web with greater certainty and prevent all possibility of the same slipping.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is 1. The combination with the body having the cross bars forming a plurality of laterally elongated apertures for the passage of the web, one of said cross bars having the gripping edge or lip, of the web locking lever pivotally mounted on an adjacent cross bar and having the gripping edge passing within the co-operating lip on said first mentioned cross bar, and the lateral ears or projections on the lever overlying the side bars of the body of the slide, for arresting the forward movement of the lever; substantially as described.

2. In a slide for garment supporters, the combination, with the body having the laterally elongated openings for the passage of the web and the hook depending from said body, of the cast-off locking lever having the hookshaped end passing around the hook and forming a snap catch therewith to hold the lever closed, and the ears or projections extending beyond the curve of the hook in substantially the same plane as the lever, and the cast-off loop having the sides adapted to engage with said projections on the lever to open the same; substantially as described.

3. In a slide for garment supporters, the combination with the body having the cross bars forminga plurality of laterally elongated openings for the passage of the web, one of said bars having the gripping lip or edge, the web locking lever pivotally mounted on an adjacent cross bar and having the gripping edge for co-operation with the edge on the cross bar and the projections forming stops for the said lever, of the hook depending from said slide, the cast-01f locking lever pivotally connected to the slide and having the hookshaped end passing around the hook and forming a snap catch therewith to hold the lever closed, the projections extending beyond the hook in substantially the plane of the lever, and the cast-off loop pivoting'in the hook and having the sides underlying said projections, whereby when the loop is turned it will open the lever; substantially as described.

GEORGE E. ADAMS.

Witnesses:

R. A. Moons, J r., O. F. GODFREY. 

